By JOSEPH MATT Satan continues to tighten his grip on the direction of our culture. In just the past couple of weeks, our nation has witnessed brutality and evil revealing themselves in shocking and exponential ways. We have seen the savage murder of a beautiful young Ukrainian immigrant on the Charlotte light rail, the […]
By JOSEPH MATT This past month, our state of Minnesota was shaken by another brutal and tragic event — the cold-blooded murder of Minnesota State Legislator Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark. Our prayers and acts of charity should be directed toward the souls of the victims and the comfort of their grieving families. It […]
By DR. CHRISTOPHER MANION On June 19th, 2024, Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed House Bill 71 into law mandating that the Ten Commandments be put on display in every classroom in the state’s public school classrooms by January 1, 2025. Of course, the Ten Commandments were universally displayed in locations public and private before the […]
By RAYMOND DE SOUZA In this article we continue where we left in the previous one: providing more historical proofs that Jesus actually claimed to be divine, which deny the assertion that all religions are different path to God, as Pope Francis said in Asia to young people, and that Bishop Barron said to Ben […]
By CHRISTOPHER MANION While Catholics await the white smoke to rise above the Sistine Chapel, we pray that the cardinals gathered there will hear the voice of the Holy Spirit and act on it. Amid the anticipation, however, a stubborn fact remains: whatever their choice of a new Supreme Pontiff, the challenge confronting the American […]
By DR. DONALD DEMARCO We are experiencing a leadership crisis. In Canada, an ineffective prime minister has resigned under pressure. In the United States, one presidential candidate withdrew because of a cognitive disability, while another had virtually nothing to offer. The man who became president has frightened the wits out of many. And the Head […]
By Mgr. POPE The content of this post comes from a series I have been teaching at the Institute of Catholic Culture on the mission of the angels. Angels are ministering spirits mystically present and active throughout creation, in the events of Scripture, in the liturgy, and in our lives. The fundamental source for these reflections is […]
A Leaven In The World . . . A generous brother priest volunteered to cover my Sunday Masses once this month. Freeing up the weekend enabled me to connect weekdays of two adjoining weeks resulting in a more generous period for a drive to Florida where my father and extended family now reside in the Space Coast […]
Persecution in the Third Reich Simultaneously with unverified reports from Rome that German-id Vatican relations are improving, and that an entente may soon be reached, comes news of further Nazi onslaughts against Church, the SCHOOLS DISSOLVED IN THE RHINELAND April 18, 1939, was a black day for Catholic Rhineland. By a decree of […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR . . . The Wanderer May 11, 1939
SURE CURE FOR COMMUNISM Editor, THE WANDERER: Mark Twain once said that every-body talks about the weather but very few try to do anything about it. The same comment might be made about the conversion of America. We could make many more converts if we would only try to do so. If every […]